I just remember the huge difference between Atola and Ace, was resell / license transfer capability. Once you but Ace, you own it forever, can not resell it. Ace becomes a brick for anyone else. You can resell the Atola, or is stil useable if you resell it. We purchased the Atola vs the Ace PC-3000 because of Ace lack of license transfer options.

I just remember the huge difference between Atola and Ace, was resell / license transfer capability. Once you but Ace, you own it forever, can not resell it. Ace becomes a brick for anyone else. You can resell the Atola, or is stil useable if you resell it. We purchased the Atola vs the Ace PC-3000 because of Ace lack of license transfer options.

That all sounds nice, and is true if all you need is a tool to copy working hard drives. But, if you expect to actually be successful in data recovery PC-3000 will handle 5x more cases than you could ever hope to with Atola. They don't even bother trying to advertise their tools as being for data recovery now, they market them as forensics tools.

He has taught us that, data recovery requires major investments. It's not as easy as most things you pick up. Truly requires dedication, skill and lots of training. The cost is secondary.

I'd say, go with the Atola for an ease of use, front line of defense, for all non mechanical failures. And Ace line of tools for the dedicated hard core professional data recovery ninjas, for mechanical and non-mechanical recovery. I've seen that guy recover wicked advanced things with the Ace line.. like chip offs, etc.

In summary. We use the Atola for basic recovery (95% of our cases). We send the rest to data recovery services for the remaining, harder cases.

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